MIT Technology Review: Bill Gates: How we’ll invent the future

MIT Technology Review: Bill Gates: How we’ll invent the future

Bill Gates was asked by MIT Technology Review to curate a list of 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2019. Here is his introduction into his list: The 10 technologies Bill Gates put onto his list: Robot dexterity New-wave nuclear power Predicting preemies Gut probe in a pill Custom cancer vaccines The cow-free burger Carbon dioxide catcher An ECG on your wrist Sanitation without sewers Smooth-talking AI assistants Bill Gates explaines the list here: Related Articles

S+B: You can’t benchmark culture
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S+B: You can’t benchmark culture

Many managers and consultants approach organizations as if it is a closed and mechanical system. They expect to be able to freeze the organization, do a major change and then unfreeze to get the expected results. The acquisition of an innovative company in order to eject their mindset and culture into the organization is an example of that approach. Getting an interior designer to change the office into a Google playground is a similar idea. It doesn’t work that way. Organizations are more like open and organic systems. Rather than using surgery to replace unwanted parts, you can better teach and develop the organization to perform. And in order to…